Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-11-08
DRIVING A FINE ART.
AN EXPERT DlSCOURSES ON THE
MCETIES OF RIBBON HANDLING.
Good, BAD and Indifferent Drivers--The
Hanson Terror Coming Into Fashion.
Four-in- Hand.

Different Styles OF Driving-Managing
q Four-in-Hand.
"Ah, driving isn't as easy as it looks, the
"horsey man" began. There are too many
downright idiots trusted with reins and
whips, and it's a wonder there are not more
accidents than there are. Some of them don't
realize the danger and more of them don't
care Half grown boys are always most to
be dreaded sitting behind horses, and espe-
cially in crowded streets. for there they can
do power of mischief to other people On
country roads they can rarely hurt any one
but themselves. don't mean fast driving,
because it isn't often such fools are trusted
with speedy cattle Yet a man may he run
over and hurt or killed by II slow animal just
as well as by fast trotJer. The driving |
mean is what | call sloppy driving, where
tho rtiiis hang half loose 5vsf the dashboard.
and the animal is never under control until
after an accident has happened. Then, again,
some of the fools lm speaking about drive
with such tight rein that they stop the
circulation round the horses mouth and they
ght as well try to pull up a cyclone as at
TEMPT TO check even a slow beast in that state
when he's frightened and starts to run away
Women don't, as Il rule, drive well, although
some of them do They're too fidcety, sliak
ing the rcins and slashmg with the whip
They're worse than flies, some of them, to a
nervous horse, and nearly all of them want
too much continuous work out Of an animal
SPEAKING OF BAD DRIVERS.
SIT stands to reason, doesn't it, that horse
can't go at top speed all the time? know a
man can't do it, and i don't see why horse
should be expected to do an impossibility.
| But you can't persuade some ladies of that;
they keep on ficliing the animal with the
whip and nagging at him with the reins, for
all the world as if he were a contrary hus-
band.n
"You speak of bad drivers. How can that
be remediedl"
| "It can only be done with the drivers OF
| public conveyances and licensed drivers gen
| orally You don't trust steam boiler or a
locomotive to man until he knows how tC
handle it, do youl OF course not. Then why
| should YOU trust him with horse that's often
Just as dangerous as any high pressure boiler
that ever was built! Why should man that
wants to earn his living by driving horses moi
| be called upon to prove that he can do it}
Look at those cab drivers we've got
Why, some of them don't know and don't
care where or how they 90. They cut i'll be
hind vehicles and pop out upon people, eitleI
frightening them to death or driving oVei
them. Then there are those fellows who
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